Re the `child benefit info` fiasco. Now can we really trust the government with all our `indentity card` info? They keep saying `sorry, next time we will will get it right` - but they never do.
Surely this is a wake-up call to all of us - the red light. How many times do we need warning...or are we too apathetic to care, until it is too late?
Just imagine ALL our info - every single citizen of the UK falling into the hands of...!
The mind boggles.
2007-11-23 08:41:14 · 17 answers · asked by B0uncingMoonman@aol.com 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
We're already there mckybird, it's happened already. The UK has more cctv cameras per head than any other nation on earth. Every detail of your life has already been captured on numerous government and private companies files.
We are already living in a 'big brother' state.
2007-11-23 08:46:49 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Tripod 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ironically the exposure of incompetent systems should now see the end of the ID tax that was planned and probably would have ended up swallowing most of our income in the end as the whole country could be employed to prove to each other who they/we are w/out ever reaching mathematical certainty. But the real reason for relief is not that humans always make mistakes has been demonstrated again in such a big way, it is that if the information on us (may not now) be brought into being on a central register so cannot be misused by this or any future government (which could so easily become malignant), and they won't be able to use it to persecute people. The Nazis never would have had an internal resistance if they had simply known everything about everyone and as absolute power corrupts absolutely, knowledge confers power so we must never allow those who would be king to get it all on record in one place, (absolutely). We are not sleepwalking, we are being led by bureaucratic fascism through ignorance of where this can so easily lead.
2007-11-23 09:12:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, we are not sleepwalking we are being bullied by Brown and co into a Big Brother State. I would say that 90% of the UK population will not willingly sign up to the expensive (and now shown to be insecure) ID card scheme. I suspect that most will refuse to go willingly and like the comunity Charge will be a failure as the Police will have to arrest about 20 million people.
2007-11-23 18:01:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
possibly ... but ask another question like, do you think that criminals and potential terrorists should be more closely monitored in the interests of protecting the public, and I am sure most people would say yes. but there is no way of doing the one without the other, the populayions has changed dramatically over the years and their have to be some measures of control and these have to adapt over time. I personally have no problem with CCTV, if a crime is committed - like your house gets burgled, and they capture the criminal on camera - then that is surely a good thing, they have also hooked them up with loudspeakers somewhere, so they can actually tell people off for dropping litter, could it be abused - posssibly, but the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. CCTV has been prooved to be a deterrent of crime, bith in terms of prevention and increasing conviction rates. I'm not so sure about ID cards,a nd i disagree with a DNA database, but I beleive that these are fundamentally different questions. I dont beleive that 'we' are being constantly monitored, I think there are systems in place to allow you to be constantly monitored, but only if it is deemed necessary - and if you anwsered yes to the first question - well there is your answer
2016-05-25 03:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by renetta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a well thought out intelligent question how unusual for this site, I will try and be worthy with an answer.
No we are not sleep walking, but we are ignoring the obvious
and walking into certain disaster with our eyes wide open, I don't think we are apathetic as much as pathetic for allowing this to go on.
2007-11-23 08:58:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the definitive answer is... maybe!
On reality street there has always been enough dissent and individualism that repressive or totalitarian regimes are eventually dismantled.... However the true intellectual is a dying (and increasingly unwelcome) breed.. {aside: Geek is now a stereotype and a cultural fad.... think about that, will you}.
If enough of the civitas are willing to sacrifice the risks of freedom for the certainties of control.... well I feel sure I'm going to be arrested for my subversive copies of Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes.
2007-11-23 10:08:14 · answer #6 · answered by Gerard S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ohhh yes. identity cards are just a step to controling our entire movments. next it iwll be our vehicles getting tracked. and i bet they will charge us some tax for the privelage
2007-11-23 09:09:46 · answer #7 · answered by mowhokman 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We arrived there over 17 years ago,it just gets progressively worse.
There was only one man in my lifetime fit to run this nation and hold it together - ENOCH POWELL - and look what they did to him ?
2007-11-23 08:55:04 · answer #8 · answered by tricia96@btinternet.com 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To be honest, no. At least, people have been paranoid about many things for thousands of years - including Armageddon, the second coming of Christ and such things.
So why more so now than ever?
2007-11-23 08:48:36 · answer #9 · answered by Daniel 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes! Wake up sheaple..the end IS near.....
2007-11-23 09:50:11 · answer #10 · answered by MC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋